INTUITED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

intuited

verb

past tense of intuit

as in understood

to have a clear idea of an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters

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Recent Examples of intuited And yet, as a prophet of capitalism, in the regimented ballet of the pin-makers Smith intuited Henry Ford’s assembly line, of how the entire world would become subservient to manufacturing and finance. —

Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026 British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process. —

Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026 Advertisement The leaders of the communist and Nazi parties—both hostile to Germany’s democratic institutions, albeit for different reasons—understood, or intuited, that political violence could erode democracy itself. —

Time, 23 Oct. 2025 Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington. —

John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025 Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited. —

Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025

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Major decisions about land use, tax incentives, and infrastructure were largely finalized before most community members fully understood the project’s scale—which has also grown into a much larger build-out than originally planned.

— Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Halifax understood the ancient truth that, in politics, the lows are lower than the highs are high.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026